When people hear others’ views on politically sensitive topics (e.g., migration, abortion), they quickly become disrespectful or disengage. How can we express our views in such a way that they foster respect and interaction?

@emilykubin.bsky.social, @kurtjgray.bsky.social & I studied this.
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Our new paper explores how to align LLMs with System 1 (intuitive) and System 2 (analytical) thinking styles. This work challenges the idea that step-by-step reasoning (CoT) is always best and highlights the need for adapting reasoning strategies based on the task
arxiv.org/abs/2502.12470

Behind obvious markers of intergroup conflict, like hate speech, is the subtler process of "othering" - depicting an outgroup as fundamentally different

This elegant paper introduces a novel method to capture othering in language & reports insights from Russian and Ukrainian war bloggers

Interesting work on capturing temporal dynamics of collective emotions from social media using adaptive LLMs 



Emotions extracted from British Tweets beautifully track survey data obtained from YouGov



(I would’ve liked to see it benchmarked against a static LLM prompted with week-specific data)

Last morning in gorgeous Copenhagen ☕

#icwsm was a treat, thank you to the organisers @icwsm.bsky.social and speakers



Sharing some of my highlights - psychology, nlp, validity(!)


and plenty more in this starter pack - bsky.app/starter-pack...

I'm revising my undergraduate module on 'Psychology of Crowd Behaviour', including a new topic on 'Crowds & Leadership'. The new reading list includes the following.

Essential reading:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

@mattansb.bsky.social has my favorite “article”:

Collective action as an alternative to nudging in behaviour change 🫶🏼 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Likely transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attribu...!

Academic Twitter ca. 2016 was my happy place.